-
Epstein ISE Department Seminar
Mon, Feb 24, 2014 @ 03:00 AM - 04:00 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. John Gunnar Carlsson, Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Minnesota
Abstract: Geography is a natural factor that must be explicitly considered in many problems in operations research, such as facility location, vehicle routing, and network design. Scientifically speaking, one of the major difficulties that geographic resource allocation problems pose is their interdisciplinary nature; in order to determine an optimal solution to such a problem, one must combine tools from a variety of disciplines, such as mathematical optimization, computational geometry, geometric probability theory, and geospatial analysis. In this talk, we show how to apply these tools to solve two fundamental logistical problems: the first is a high-level analysis of a hub-and-spoke network design problem, and the second is a districting problem in which the goal is to partition a geographic territory so as to balance the workloads of a collection of service facilities or vehicles.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2014
ANDRUS GERONTOLOGY BLDG (GER) ROOM 206
3:00 - 4:00 PM
Biography: John Gunnar Carlsson is an assistant professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Minnesota. He received a Ph.D. in computational mathematics from ICME in Stanford University in 2009 and an A.B. in mathematics and music from Harvard College in 2005. He is the recipient of the 2013 INFORMS Computing Society (ICS) Prize, the 2014 Air Force Young Investigator Prize, the 2012 DARPA Young Faculty Award, and the 2010 INFORMS Interactive Session Prize. His research is supported by DARPA, the Office of Naval Research, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the National Science Foundation, the Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT), and the Boeing Company, and has appeared in Operations Research, Scientific Reports, Transportation Science, the INFORMS Journal on Computing, and the ACM Transactions on Algorithms.
Host: Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
More Information: Seminar-Carlsson.doc
Location: Room 206
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
